Yumika Hayashi - Legacy

Legacy

Hayashi was remembered as part of a TV Asahi special on those who had recently died. The show, Sayonara 5, 6 tsuki hen (さよなら　５、６月編), was broadcast on August 12, 2005 and included reminiscences and some details of the day before her death.

Hayashi's last film, Miss Peach: Peachy Sweetness Huge Breasts (ミスピーチ　巨乳は桃の甘み, Misu Piichi: kyonyū wa momo no umami?) (2005), directed by Yumi Yoshiyuki, was released in September 2005. Yoshiyuki and co-star Sakurako Kaoru participated in the memorial ceremony for Hayashi at the film's opening at the Ueno Okura theater. The film received a standing ovation. Hayashi's posthumous work was chosen as the fifth best pink release of the year 2005 at the Pink Grand Prix. The 2006 Pink Grand Prix posthumously gave Hayashi her second special award for her work as a pink film actress. Yoshiyuki Hayashida, founder of the pink film magazine P*G and the Pink Grand Prix co-authored a 382-page biography of Hayashi in 2006 entitled YUMIKA HAYASHI : A Portrait of the Actress as a Young Woman (女優 林由美香, Joyū Hayashi Yumika?). In 2009, Japanese-Korean director Tetsuaki Matsue filmed a documentary on Hayashi. Titled Annyeong Yumika (あんにょん由美香, Annyon Yumika?), the film includes appearances by Hayashi's former colleagues actress Lemon Hanazawa and directors Company Matsuo and Katsuyuki Hirano.